The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-22
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
Secretary Lamar. accompanied by his
bride, returned to Washington on Saturday.
The Arlington House, at New Westminster,
British Columbia, was burned early Sunday
morning, and three of the boarders persisted
in the flames.
Thos j. Cluverius. whose execution at
Richmond, Va, last Friday, was published in
the ADVOCATE last week, asserted his inno-
cence to the last
James Lamb, Albert odell and John t.
Echols, white, and John Stevens, colored,
were hanged last Friday at Fort Smith, Arkan-
sas, for murders committed in the Indian
Territory.
The Staten Island Rapid Transit Company
has awarded a contract for building three
steel ferry boats to Harlan & Hollingsworth.
of Delaware. They are to cost Sl00,000 each
and be ready by June or July.
The steamship Seminole on Saturday sailed
from Charleston, South Carolina, for New
York, with 10S tons of pigiron from Birming-
ham, Alabama. This is the first cargo of pig
iron ever shipped from Charleston.
A disease, resembling the pink eye, has
prevailed for several weeks among the horses
of the Transverse Railway at Pttsburg, Pa.
Thirty-six horses have been unfit for service
and several have died within few days.
An epidemic of fever and sore throat has
prevailed in st. lgnace, Michigan, for the last
two weeks, but only one death has resulted so
far. The schools have been closed. The dis
ease resembles scarlet fever, but what it is
medical men are not agreed.
The "oldest man in New England"
Charles King, who is said to have smoked
To- G..
celebrated on Saturday, at Middleton, Mass,
his 106th birthday anniversary. His mother,
it is stated, lived to be 107 years old, and he is
still hale enough to look for several years of
lifeyet.
A Chinese laborer on the Northern Pacific
Railroad at Clallam, in Washington Territory,
having quarrel with two of his countrymen
a few nights ago, placed giant powder cart
ridge, between them as they lay asleep, and
then, lighting the fuse, fed. One of the
men was killed, and the other MORALLY
wounded.
DR.. McGlynn is reported to be very i'll in
New York, heart trouble from which he has
long suffered having been given an acute turn
by the recent excitement, and he is also af-
tiicted with nervous prostration. 1t is said
that he sent message to his parishioners on
Monday night enjoining forbearance, submits
sion and patience. -
The Senate of Indiana on Monday, follow
ing the example of the House set last week,
unseated Mcdonald, Republican, the Demo
cratic majority refusing the minority of the
Elections Committee the privilege of present
ing report. This restores the Legislature on
joint ballot to the former figures of 76 Demo
Gratis and IA Republicans,
Temperatures below zero were reported in
the West Tuesday morning as follows: St.
Paul, 81; Chicago, 10; st. Vincent, 80; Duluth,
81; Milwaukee, ID; Omaha, 70; Dies Moines, II;
Toledo, I; and Springfield, 3. 1t was zero at
Cincinnati, ST. Louis and Leavenworth, and
there was freezing temperaturesat Charles
ton, Augusta, Montgomery and Pensacola in
the South.
Representative Croxton, of Virginia, has in
troduced resolution adopted by the common
council of Fredericksburg, Va, requesting
Congress to appropriate $4,000 to complete
the unfinished monument at Fredericksburg
to the mother of George Washington. This
monument was begun in 1888, when the cor
ner stone was laid by President jackson.
Work was continued for four years aud then
abandoned.
Three governors % states we're inaugurated
on fuesdaP-l Delawarei Beaver, of
Pennsyyaniayg n J of New Jersey, II.
3, Quay on the same day was elected United
States Senator from fennsylvania, and George
Gray was re- elected to the United States
Senate by tho Delaware Legislature. Senator
Charles r. Farwell was reelected in Illinois;
J. r. Hawley in Connecticut and Eugene
Hale in Maine.
The schooner Parallel, from San Francisco
for Astoria, was driven on the rocks outside
the Golden Gate on Saturday night, and about
an hour afterwards about one hundred thou.
sand pounds of powder, which formed part OF
her cargo, blew up, wrecking the Cliff House,
the lile-saying station and other buildings in
the neighborhood. Three of the life saving
crew who had remained on the beach were
severely INJURED
The Secretary of the Interior has requested
the Attorney Generalto bring civil suit against
Mgckle Brothers, of St. Helen, Oregon, for
the manufactured value of timber alleged ta
,haye been uniawfully cut from Government
lands in Columbia county, Oregon. Il is
asserted that this firm have cut and removed
from Columbia county over 5,000,000 feet of
hr, CEDAR ana maple timber, BOARD measure,
valued at from 30 10 slV per laonSana leeE
when manufactured INTO LUMBER, ana % per
thousand in logs at the mill.
The special Committee of the Senate ON
Centennial Celebrations, at meeting on Sat.
urday, decided with reference to the centen-
NAL of the PRONUNCIATION of the United States
Constitution, that the celebration shall consist
af IA address and some civic and military
Displays, the details Of which are TO be settled
hereafter. With respect to the 4O0th ami
versary of the discovery of America, it was
decided to recommend that joint committee
of the two houses be raised 10 consider the
subject of an appropriate celebration In 1892.
On the 22d of October last the house of the
POE family, In hnox county, hentgcky, was
burned down, and IN the ruins were found the